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November 22, 2010

"Average people must look at the screens and see the disconnect," says Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel: "it’s not left vs. right, it’s top-down. It’s establishment vs. people." So says Katrina vanden Heuvel of the average TV news show. Faced with the cynical coverage of the mainstream media, what can ordinary Americans do to work toward an alternative that more accurately reflects the problems facing our country today?

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